Ruben's Reviews > 84, Charing Cross Road

Every now and then I see this book appear on my feed so after a while I decided to give it a go and shelved it. It's high time I read it!

In this non-fictional read, what started first as a search for old and out-of-print books during the postwar, it later become a long distance friendship between Helene and Frank. Throughout the exchange of letters, they built a 20 year-old long distance relationship, which reminds us human relationships can -at times- occur in odd and yet incredible ways.

This also shows us that when solid, a true friendship can endure good and bad times and last for a lifetime.

I particularly feel a little nostalgia for a time in which physical letters were quite a thing. I guess the Internet, technology and all can also survive the passing of time, but not as glamorously as such exchange once was.

And once again, the magic of book-reading made my imagination visualize everything from above.

Should you give it a go? Please do!